American RV,s

I’ve seen 5th Wheelers and large American RV’s at Rookesbury Park, Morvich and a Thetford Forrest, obviously no good if you don’t want to be in those locations

Dont know how long Trikeys RV is but he doesn’t indicate he has many problems finding sites

I wonder if the issue is as much about the site roads being able to accommodate large vehicles than pitch size. The CMC has been trying to make its site roads safer.

I don’t think RVs make the roads unsafe! However, there could well be cases where the roads aren’t wide enough to allow for the large turning circle of RVs getting on and off pitch. 

When I have seen them on site they are usually pitched at a point where they drive down part of the site road and directly onto a pitch without additional manoeuvring

American RVs are great in the right places. Thing is on many sites they may well limit your choice of pitch to a minimum, sometimes even the number of sites available to you.

I can recall the day we saw our very first American RV, size of a big coach, with slide outs. Early 90’s on a little family run campsite at Bodinnick. How they got it in and out was a mystery, but they had come back to see friends who they had worked for a decade ago. Whole site had a good look around, it was so unusual. It was their full time accommodation, they travelled up and down UK wherever they fancied. Had a car as well of course. 

Hi All

As some of you may be aware, and by my avatar, I have an American fifth wheel trailer. This lives on a site where I over winter south of Alicante in Spain. This year I've had a new one delivered, and that's where I think the relevance to the OP is. Ok, it's slightly different as mine's not a touring pitch but a full seasonal one but, at the time of delivery, with the help from reception, several of my neighbours and plenty of other folk willing to help it took 50 minutes to manoeuvre, sometimes inches at a time to get the new 40 foot trailer finally in place. 

As a club warden I'll do my best to accommodate a rv or any outfit that may seem "oversize" but you must appreciate that although the pitching of my outfit above is a bit extreme it could be conceived that "I've got an rv" could make any site staff inexperienced in such things very wary, especially at times like a full weekend?

JK

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Chapel Lane always seems to have lots of RV's on site.

I  wondered  what  you  have  now  JK,  since,  at  another  South-West  site,  the  Lady  Warden  told  me  she  had  got  your  old  one  !!  Must  seem  a  tad  cramped  in  the  AutoCruise,  unless  you've  swapped  that  as  well  ??